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Formal Writing Whiteboard Cues for Structure
These Lego-inspired whiteboard cues give students a better understanding of the basic structure of formal writing such as literary or expository essays. They compliment our Formal Writing for Strugglers resource and help teachers who don't have Lego available use the strategy discussed in our Teaching the Basics of Formal Writing Structure video on YouTube. Print, laminate and 'stick' them to your whiteboard with sticky-tack or magnetic tape.
Perfect for Years 7 and 8, or for remedial help in years 9 and 10 ... or 11...12...13... 😭
This resource includes:
⭐ 13 pages of printable whiteboard cues and instructions
You and your students will enjoy:
❤️ Lego-inpired bricks to help with whole text and/or paragraph structure. Each of the three 'point' bricks appear in a different colour.
❤️ Several blank/white bricks so that you can write what you like on them.
❤️ Two cue styles to help with overall structure - one of a stick figure (put the head, body and feet together), and one of a hamburder (put the top of the bun, filling and bottom of the bun together.
❤️ 'Enter' buttons and 'zigzag' cues to emphasise the need to miss a whole line between each paragraph.
❤️ Planning essays together on the board, mixing your bricks up a bit, using the blank bricks to extend students into wider world thinking etc... Use your imagination - enjoy!
❤️ Instructions/suggestions for how to use the cues.
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page. This means your resource:
- Is completely editable.
- Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
- Is printable 📃
🖥️ A flat-packed version - this means your students can edit digitally ONLY the parts they should. The rest is locked down to prevent them damaging it.
🖥️ A PDF version
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Also helpful are these related products:
✅ Formal Writing for Stugglers - Back to Basics with Structure
✅ Common Errors - 10 essential lessons (set 7)
✅ For when you get going: Sylistic Features - Language and Structure
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